Shaq now owns part of the team he once called the 'Sacramento Queens'

Four-time NBA champion Shaquille O’Neal was once the scourge of Sacramento, eliminating the Kings from the playoffs en route to titles with the Lakers in three consecutive seasons from 2000 to 2002. Now the TNT analyst owns a slice of the team.

As first reported by USA TODAY Sports’ Sam Amick, O’Neal will meet with Kings players and coaches today, and is very excited to help usher in a new era of Kings basketball.

“What interested me in this deal is the new vision, the new Kings, the new everything,” said O’Neal, who so famously deemed the Kings the “Queens” at the start of the 2002-03 season. “I’ve always wanted to be part of something like this. … It’s going to be great.”

Shaq’s involvement with the Kings comes as a bit of a surprise, given that he once anointed the team “the Sacramento Queens” during his days as a Laker.

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